But he didn’t look to secure said victory
And that is why he isn’t known
Or remembered by history
His faults were shown
Still, he wasn’t totally incompetent
For he did have messengers
Where the Romano-Mongols were dominant
One came toward him, then, bearing messages
These messages told of an attack on the Chagatai Khanate,
But they were dismissed.
“The Chagatai Khan believes himself Genghis Khan incarnate,”
Dristar said. “They should be able to resist.”
His sieges continued,
And the Romano-Mongols grew complacent
Soon, Dristar didn’t even send out scouting retinues
He believed his victory to be nascent
Luckily, his advisers convinced him this was a bad idea
As the Ming could use it to gain the element of surprise
And that would be a
Huge shame, losing due to the enemy knowing how to surprise
Dristar reluctantly obeyed them
But he made it clear that he was the ruler,
Refusing to let them condemn
His decisions, for his word was law as the Emperor
As such, he got new advisers
After this debacle
These men allowed him to be their supervisor
And to not allow his reign to topple
The Ming didn’t arrive,
And the men began to get restless,
But they wished to remain alive,
And they weren’t headless
Due to that, their complaints were infrequent,
For Dristar’s temper was legendary,
So they allowed the sieges to go on sequent,
As everything was, to their lives, secondary